"Weird" characters in password fails

#1

I’m using Vertical Backup 1.1.1 and have issues with storing my password. I’m using a B2 storage and store a storage encryption along with the keys in the passwords file.

When I remove my storage password all is working except I have to type in my password. When I put the password in the passwords file, I get the below error. It might be because my password contains a @

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “vertical_main.py”, line 143, in
File “vertical_backup.py”, line 504, in backupCommand
File “vertical_backup.py”, line 346, in loadConfig
File “vertical_utils.py”, line 345, in generateKeyFromPassword
File “vertical_utils.py”, line 329, in pbkdf2_bin
File “hmac.py”, line 136, in new
File “hmac.py”, line 75, in init
TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode
Failed to execute script vertical_main
Command exited with non-zero status 255

#2

This is a bug. I’ll roll out an update tomorrow.

#3

Thanks for swift action!

#4

The bug has been fixed in version 1.1.2. It was caused by the storage password read from the json file being an unicode string which caused the key generation function to error out.

#5

Thanks! It’s working now.